ah yes the old October surprise lie. liberals need to review their old play book. if they don't they end up looking like liars. of course, they are.......
ah yes the old October surprise lie. liberals need to review their old play book. if they don't they end up looking like liars. of course, they are.......
LOL, whatever.
Let me guess, JBo. In your eyes, Reagan couldn't do any wrong.
The Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion by handing down their decision in the case of Roe v. Wade. Despite opponents' characterization of the decision, it was not the first time that abortion became a legal procedure in the United States. In fact, for most of the country's first 100 years, abortion as we know it today was not only not a criminal offense, it was also not considered immoral.
1964 U.S. Joint Chiefs foresee larger U.S. commitment
The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff inform Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that they "are wholly in favor of executing the covert actions against North Vietnam."
Yeah, the good old day. When abortions were legal and not considered immoral. When you could own slaves, beat your wife & kids, and burn witches at the stake.
In fact, for most of the country's first 100 years, abortion as we know it today was not only not a criminal offense, it was also not considered immoral.
As I suspected the post by Tess at #273 was somewhat misleading:
Were there laws against abortion in the early American colonies?
The colonies inherited English Common Law and largely operated under it until well into the 19th century. English Common Law forbade abortion. Abortion prior to quickening was a misdemeanor. Abortion after quickening (feeling life) was a felony. This bifid punishment, inherited from earlier ecclesiastic law, stemmed from earlier "knowledge" regarding human reproduction.
When did this change?
In the early 1800s it was discovered that human life did not begin when she "felt life," but rather at fertilization. As a direct result of this, the British Parliament in 1869 passed the "Offenses Against the Persons Act," eliminating the above bifid punishment and dropping the felony punishment back to fertilization. One by one, across the middle years of the 19th century, every then-present state passed its own law against abortion. By 1860, 85% of the population lived in states which had prohibited abortion with new laws. These laws, preceding and following the British example, moved the felony punishment from quickening back to conception.
J. Dellapenna, The History of Abortion: Technology, Morality, and Law, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 1979 Quay, Justifiable Abortion-Medical and Legal Foundations, Georgetown Univ., Law Review, 1960-1961
Abortion was not created in the United States by the Supreme Court’s historic Roe v. Wade ruling. Whether legal or illegal, abortion has been a part of life in the United States since the Colonial period.
From the colonial period to the 1800s, abortion was legal before “quickeninq,” which occurred approximately during the fourth month of pregnancy. During that period, primitive methods–such as jumping on or hitting a pregnant woman’s abdomen, introducing foreign objects into the uterus, or using concoctions made from easily found herbs–were used to cause abortion, frequently killing or injuring the woman.
Abortion was not a crime, and was quite common, in the United States during the 1700s and early 1800s. The mid-1800s campaign to criminalize abortion stemmed from the medical profession’s desire to establish the supremacy of physicians over midwives and homeopaths, an increasing resentment towards the growing women’s rights movement, and a racist reaction to the growing number of nonwhite and non-Protestant immigrants. Laws passed across the country between 1860 and 1880 prohibited abortion at any point in pregnancy. However, abortion remained widely available throughout the next century. According to some late-nineteenth century sources, approximately two million abortions were performed annually.
Abortion was not created in the United States by the Supreme Court’s historic Roe v. Wade ruling. Whether legal or illegal, abortion has been a part of life in the United States since the Colonial period.
The mid-1800s campaign to criminalize abortion stemmed from the medical profession’s desire to establish the supremacy of physicians over midwives and homeopaths, an increasing resentment towards the growing women’s rights movement, and a racist reaction to the growing number of nonwhite and non-Protestant immigrants. Laws passed across the country between 1860 and 1880 prohibited abortion at any point in pregnancy. However, abortion remained widely available throughout the next century. According to some late-nineteenth century sources, approximately two million abortions were performed annually.
I think most of the above is pure propaganda and possibly out right lies.
the problem with people that believe in the what Tess posted is that they don't think. I do KNOW that much of what Tess posted was taken from a proabortion author. Maybe you should be skeptical, ares, because I did provide evidence that abortion was illegal under the common law in the 19th century despite what Tess posted.
Baby loves me Yes, yes she does Ah, the girl's outta sight, yeah Says she loves me Yes, yes she does Gonna show me tonight, yeah
She got the way to move me, Cherry She got the way to groove me She got the way to move me She got the way to groove me
Tell your mamma, girl, I can't stay long We got things we gotta catch up on Mmmm, you know You know what I'm sayin' Can't stand still while the music is playin'
Y'ain't got no right No, no you don't Ah, to be so exciting Won't need bright lights No, no we won't Gonna make our own lighting
She got the way to move me, Cherry She got the way to groove me She got the way to move me She got the way to groove me
No, we won't tell a soul where we gone to Girl, we do whatever we want to Ah, I love the way that you do me Cherry, babe, you really get to me
She got the way to move me, Cherry She got the way to groove me She got the way to move me She got the way to groove me
Young director Alfred Hitchcock's first film, The Pleasure Garden, is released in England on this day in 1927. While the film marked an impressive debut, Hitchcock considered his next film, The Lodger (known in the United States as The Case of Jonathan Drew), to be his first true accomplishment. It also marked the first of his many cameo appearances.
On January 27, 1926, John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a true television system in London, launching a revolution in communication and entertainment. Baird's invention, a pictorial-transmission machine he called a "televisor," used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving images into electronic impulses. This information was then transmitted by cable to a screen where it showed up as a low-resolution pattern of light and dark. Baird's first television program showed the heads of two ventriloquist dummies, which he operated in front of the camera apparatus out of view of the audience.
In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana convene to establish the Confederate States of America.
The official record read: "Be it remembered that on the fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the Capitol of the State of Alabama, in the city of Montgomery, at the hour of noon, there assembled certain deputies and delegates from the several independent South State of North America..."
The first order of business was drafting a constitution. They used the U.S. Constitution as a model, and most of it was taken verbatim. It took just four days to hammer out a tentative document to govern the new nation. The president was limited to one six-year term. Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the word "slave" was used and the institution protected in all states and any territories to be added later. Importation of slaves was prohibited, as this would alienate European nations and would detract from the profitable "internal slave trade" in the South. Other components of the constitution were designed to enhance the power of the states--governmental money for internal improvements was banned and the president was given a line-item veto on appropriations bills.
As early as 1858, the ongoing conflict between the North and the South over the issue of slavery led Southern leadership to discuss a unified separation from the United States. By 1860, the majority of the slave states were publicly threatening secession if the Republicans, the anti-slavery party, won the presidency. Following Republican Abraham Lincoln's victory over the divided Democratic Party in November 1860, South Carolina immediately initiated secession proceedings. On December 20, its legislature passed the "Ordinance of Secession," which declared: "the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved." After the declaration, South Carolina set about seizing forts, arsenals, and other strategic locations within the state. Within six weeks, five more Southern states had followed South Carolina's lead.
By the time Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated in March 1861, Texas had joined the Confederacy, and federal troops held only Fort Sumter in South Carolina, Fort Pickens off the Florida coast, and a handful of minor outposts in the South. On April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay. Within two months, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee had all joined the embattled Confederacy.
On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to "pack" the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal.
During the previous two years, the high court had struck down several key pieces of New Deal legislation on the grounds that the laws delegated an unconstitutional amount of authority to the executive branch and the federal government. Flushed with his landslide reelection in 1936, President Roosevelt issued a proposal in February 1937 to provide retirement at full pay for all members of the court over 70. If a justice refused to retire, an "assistant" with full voting rights was to be appointed, thus ensuring Roosevelt a liberal majority. Most Republicans and many Democrats in Congress opposed the so-called "court-packing" plan.
In April, however, before the bill came to a vote in Congress, two Supreme Court justices came over to the liberal side and by a narrow majority upheld as constitutional the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. The majority opinion acknowledged that the national economy had grown to such a degree that federal regulation and control was now warranted. Roosevelt's reorganization plan was thus unnecessary, and in July the Senate struck it down by a vote of 70 to 22. Soon after, Roosevelt had the opportunity to nominate his first Supreme Court justice, and by 1942 all but two of the justices were his appointees.
In his State of the Union address, President Ronald Reagan defines some of the key concepts of his foreign policy, establishing what comes to be known as the "Reagan Doctrine." The doctrine served as the foundation for the Reagan administration's support of "freedom fighters" around the globe.
Reagan began his foreign policy comments with the dramatic pronouncement that, "Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few; it is the universal right of all God's children." America's "mission" was to "nourish and defend freedom and democracy." More specifically, Reagan declared that, "We must stand by our democratic allies. And we must not break faith with those who are risking their lives-on every continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua-to defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth." He concluded, "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense."
With these words, the Reagan administration laid the foundation for its program of military assistance to "freedom fighters." In action, this policy translated into covertly supporting the Contras in their attacks on the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua; the Afghan rebels in their fight against the Soviet occupiers; and anticommunist Angolan forces embroiled in that nation's civil war. President Reagan continued to defend his actions throughout his two terms in office. During his farewell address in 1989, he claimed success in weakening the Sandinista government, forcing the Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan, and bringing an end to the conflict in Angola. Domestic critics, however, decried his actions, claiming that the support of so-called "freedom fighters" resulted only in prolonging and escalating bloody conflicts and in U.S. support of repressive and undemocratic elements in each of the respective nations.
Adolph Coors disappears while driving to work from his Morrison, Colorado, home. The grandson of the Coors' founder and chairman of the Golden, Colorado, brewery was kidnapped and held for ransom before being shot to death. Surrounding evidence launched one of the FBI's largest manhunts: the search for Joe Corbett.
Corbett, a Fulbright scholar at the University of Oregon, was headed to medical school when, in 1951, he got into an altercation with an Air Force sergeant. During the fight, he shot the man and ended up pleading guilty to second-degree murder. He was sent to San Quentin Prison for several years before being transferred to a minimum-security facility, where he easily escaped and began living under an alias, Walter Osborne.
Eight days after Coors was kidnapped, a car was found on fire in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The gasoline-fueled fire had been deliberately set, but it couldn't destroy the serial number imprinted on the engine. The car was traced back to Corbett, whose yellow Mercury had been spotted by many witnesses in the area of the crime in the days leading up to the abduction. Dirt from the car was ultimately traced back to the area where Coors was grabbed and taken hostage.
Seven months after the abduction of Adolph Coors in 1960, the millionaire's clothes were found in a dump near Sedalia, Colorado. This evidence led to the discovery of Coors' remains nearby. A ransom letter was traced back to Joe Corbett's typewriter. He had also ordered handcuffs, leg irons, and a gun through the mail in the months preceding the kidnapping. The FBI distributed 1.5 million posters with Corbett's picture and then tracked him all the way across Canada, from Toronto to Vancouver, where he was finally apprehended.
Corbett never testified at his trial and never made any statement, but the evidence was enough to convince the jury who convicted him in 1961. He was eventually released in 1980.
Wow. Kill two people and still get out of jail within 30 years.
That was my point, Allison. Reagan's being President didn't actually have anything to do with it. It was all a sham.
ah yes the old October surprise lie. liberals need to review their old play book. if they don't they end up looking like liars. of course, they are.......
ah yes the old October surprise lie. liberals need to review their old play book. if they don't they end up looking like liars. of course, they are.......
LOL, whatever.
Let me guess, JBo. In your eyes, Reagan couldn't do any wrong.
1973 Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion by handing down their decision in the case of Roe v. Wade. Despite opponents' characterization of the decision, it was not the first time that abortion became a legal procedure in the United States. In fact, for most of the country's first 100 years, abortion as we know it today was not only not a criminal offense, it was also not considered immoral.
1964 U.S. Joint Chiefs foresee larger U.S. commitment
The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff inform Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that they "are wholly in favor of executing the covert actions against North Vietnam."
And what a brilliant idea!
it was also not considered immoral.
Yeah, the good old day. When abortions were legal and not considered immoral. When you could own slaves, beat your wife & kids, and burn witches at the stake.
Good times. Good, good, times.
In your eyes, Reagan couldn't do any wrong.
Oh he made a few mistakes, but who doesn't. Overall I would have to say he was one of the best presidents the US has had.
Happy Tet, Seol and Chinese New Year. The Vietnamese, Koreans and Chinese all celebrate the year of the monkey today
In fact, for most of the country's first 100 years, abortion as we know it today was not only not a criminal offense, it was also not considered immoral.
For some reason I just don't believe this.
As I suspected the post by Tess at #273 was somewhat misleading:
Were there laws against abortion in the early American colonies?
The colonies inherited English Common Law and largely operated under it until well into the 19th century. English Common Law forbade abortion. Abortion prior to quickening was a misdemeanor. Abortion after quickening (feeling life) was a felony. This bifid punishment, inherited from earlier ecclesiastic law, stemmed from earlier "knowledge" regarding human reproduction.
When did this change?
In the early 1800s it was discovered that human life did not begin when she "felt life," but rather at fertilization. As a direct result of this, the British Parliament in 1869 passed the "Offenses Against the Persons Act," eliminating the above bifid punishment and dropping the felony punishment back to fertilization. One by one, across the middle years of the 19th century, every then-present state passed its own law against abortion. By 1860, 85% of the population lived in states which had prohibited abortion with new laws. These laws, preceding and following the British example, moved the felony punishment from quickening back to conception.
J. Dellapenna, The History of Abortion: Technology, Morality, and Law, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 1979 Quay, Justifiable Abortion-Medical and Legal Foundations, Georgetown Univ., Law Review, 1960-1961
Abortion was not created in the United States by the Supreme Court’s historic Roe v. Wade ruling. Whether legal or illegal, abortion has been a part of life in the United States since the Colonial period.
From the colonial period to the 1800s, abortion was legal before “quickeninq,” which occurred approximately during the fourth month of pregnancy. During that period, primitive methods–such as jumping on or hitting a pregnant woman’s abdomen, introducing foreign objects into the uterus, or using concoctions made from easily found herbs–were used to cause abortion, frequently killing or injuring the woman.
Abortion was not a crime, and was quite common, in the United States during the 1700s and early 1800s. The mid-1800s campaign to criminalize abortion stemmed from the medical profession’s desire to establish the supremacy of physicians over midwives and homeopaths, an increasing resentment towards the growing women’s rights movement, and a racist reaction to the growing number of nonwhite and non-Protestant immigrants. Laws passed across the country between 1860 and 1880 prohibited abortion at any point in pregnancy. However, abortion remained widely available throughout the next century. According to some late-nineteenth century sources, approximately two million abortions were performed annually.
Abortion was not created in the United States by the Supreme Court’s historic Roe v. Wade ruling. Whether legal or illegal, abortion has been a part of life in the United States since the Colonial period.
So? There has always been selfishness and sin.
Abortion was not a crime, and was quite common, in the United States during the 1700s and early 1800s.
What about the common law? The above statement seems to be based on the fact there was very little stautory law.
The mid-1800s campaign to criminalize abortion stemmed from the medical profession’s desire to establish the supremacy of physicians over midwives and homeopaths, an increasing resentment towards the growing women’s rights movement, and a racist reaction to the growing number of nonwhite and non-Protestant immigrants. Laws passed across the country between 1860 and 1880 prohibited abortion at any point in pregnancy. However, abortion remained widely available throughout the next century. According to some late-nineteenth century sources, approximately two million abortions were performed annually.
I think most of the above is pure propaganda and possibly out right lies.
your problem, jethro, is that you think.
the problem with people that believe in the what Tess posted is that they don't think. I do KNOW that much of what Tess posted was taken from a proabortion author. Maybe you should be skeptical, ares, because I did provide evidence that abortion was illegal under the common law in the 19th century despite what Tess posted.
Neil Diamond born on this day
January 24th
CHERRY, CHERRY
Written by Neil Diamond
Baby loves me
Yes, yes she does
Ah, the girl's outta sight, yeah
Says she loves me
Yes, yes she does
Gonna show me tonight, yeah
She got the way to move me, Cherry
She got the way to groove me
She got the way to move me
She got the way to groove me
Tell your mamma, girl, I can't stay long
We got things we gotta catch up on
Mmmm, you know
You know what I'm sayin'
Can't stand still while the music is playin'
Y'ain't got no right
No, no you don't
Ah, to be so exciting
Won't need bright lights
No, no we won't
Gonna make our own lighting
She got the way to move me, Cherry
She got the way to groove me
She got the way to move me
She got the way to groove me
No, we won't tell a soul where we gone to
Girl, we do whatever we want to
Ah, I love the way that you do me
Cherry, babe, you really get to me
She got the way to move me, Cherry
She got the way to groove me
She got the way to move me
She got the way to groove me
First Alfred Hitchcock film opens.
Young director Alfred Hitchcock's first film, The Pleasure Garden, is released in England on this day in 1927. While the film marked an impressive debut, Hitchcock considered his next film, The Lodger (known in the United States as The Case of Jonathan Drew), to be his first true accomplishment. It also marked the first of his many cameo appearances.
BAIRD DEMONSTRATES TV:
On January 27, 1926, John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a true television system in London, launching a revolution in communication and entertainment. Baird's invention, a pictorial-transmission machine he called a "televisor," used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving images into electronic impulses. This information was then transmitted by cable to a screen where it showed up as a low-resolution pattern of light and dark. Baird's first television program showed the heads of two ventriloquist dummies, which he operated in front of the camera apparatus out of view of the audience.
In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana convene to establish the Confederate States of America.
The official record read: "Be it remembered that on the fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the Capitol of the State of Alabama, in the city of Montgomery, at the hour of noon, there assembled certain deputies and delegates from the several independent South State of North America..."
The first order of business was drafting a constitution. They used the U.S. Constitution as a model, and most of it was taken verbatim. It took just four days to hammer out a tentative document to govern the new nation. The president was limited to one six-year term. Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the word "slave" was used and the institution protected in all states and any territories to be added later. Importation of slaves was prohibited, as this would alienate European nations and would detract from the profitable "internal slave trade" in the South. Other components of the constitution were designed to enhance the power of the states--governmental money for internal improvements was banned and the president was given a line-item veto on appropriations bills.
As early as 1858, the ongoing conflict between the North and the South over the issue of slavery led Southern leadership to discuss a unified separation from the United States. By 1860, the majority of the slave states were publicly threatening secession if the Republicans, the anti-slavery party, won the presidency. Following Republican Abraham Lincoln's victory over the divided Democratic Party in November 1860, South Carolina immediately initiated secession proceedings. On December 20, its legislature passed the "Ordinance of Secession," which declared: "the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved." After the declaration, South Carolina set about seizing forts, arsenals, and other strategic locations within the state. Within six weeks, five more Southern states had followed South Carolina's lead.
By the time Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated in March 1861, Texas had joined the Confederacy, and federal troops held only Fort Sumter in South Carolina, Fort Pickens off the Florida coast, and a handful of minor outposts in the South. On April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay. Within two months, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee had all joined the embattled Confederacy.
On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to "pack" the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal.
During the previous two years, the high court had struck down several key pieces of New Deal legislation on the grounds that the laws delegated an unconstitutional amount of authority to the executive branch and the federal government. Flushed with his landslide reelection in 1936, President Roosevelt issued a proposal in February 1937 to provide retirement at full pay for all members of the court over 70. If a justice refused to retire, an "assistant" with full voting rights was to be appointed, thus ensuring Roosevelt a liberal majority. Most Republicans and many Democrats in Congress opposed the so-called "court-packing" plan.
In April, however, before the bill came to a vote in Congress, two Supreme Court justices came over to the liberal side and by a narrow majority upheld as constitutional the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. The majority opinion acknowledged that the national economy had grown to such a degree that federal regulation and control was now warranted. Roosevelt's reorganization plan was thus unnecessary, and in July the Senate struck it down by a vote of 70 to 22. Soon after, Roosevelt had the opportunity to nominate his first Supreme Court justice, and by 1942 all but two of the justices were his appointees.
Former President Ronald Reagan was born on this day ninety-three years ago (1911).
The "Reagan Doctrine" is announced
In his State of the Union address, President Ronald Reagan defines some of the key concepts of his foreign policy, establishing what comes to be known as the "Reagan Doctrine." The doctrine served as the foundation for the Reagan administration's support of "freedom fighters" around the globe.
Reagan began his foreign policy comments with the dramatic pronouncement that, "Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few; it is the universal right of all God's children." America's "mission" was to "nourish and defend freedom and democracy." More specifically, Reagan declared that, "We must stand by our democratic allies. And we must not break faith with those who are risking their lives-on every continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua-to defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth." He concluded, "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense."
With these words, the Reagan administration laid the foundation for its program of military assistance to "freedom fighters." In action, this policy translated into covertly supporting the Contras in their attacks on the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua; the Afghan rebels in their fight against the Soviet occupiers; and anticommunist Angolan forces embroiled in that nation's civil war. President Reagan continued to defend his actions throughout his two terms in office. During his farewell address in 1989, he claimed success in weakening the Sandinista government, forcing the Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan, and bringing an end to the conflict in Angola. Domestic critics, however, decried his actions, claiming that the support of so-called "freedom fighters" resulted only in prolonging and escalating bloody conflicts and in U.S. support of repressive and undemocratic elements in each of the respective nations.
wow- maybe loosing your memory is the way to go if we live longer-
I didnt realize he was that old! thanks for the info
Coors brewery heir is kidnapped
Adolph Coors disappears while driving to work from his Morrison, Colorado, home. The grandson of the Coors' founder and chairman of the Golden, Colorado, brewery was kidnapped and held for ransom before being shot to death. Surrounding evidence launched one of the FBI's largest manhunts: the search for Joe Corbett.
Corbett, a Fulbright scholar at the University of Oregon, was headed to medical school when, in 1951, he got into an altercation with an Air Force sergeant. During the fight, he shot the man and ended up pleading guilty to second-degree murder. He was sent to San Quentin Prison for several years before being transferred to a minimum-security facility, where he easily escaped and began living under an alias, Walter Osborne.
Eight days after Coors was kidnapped, a car was found on fire in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The gasoline-fueled fire had been deliberately set, but it couldn't destroy the serial number imprinted on the engine. The car was traced back to Corbett, whose yellow Mercury had been spotted by many witnesses in the area of the crime in the days leading up to the abduction. Dirt from the car was ultimately traced back to the area where Coors was grabbed and taken hostage.
Seven months after the abduction of Adolph Coors in 1960, the millionaire's clothes were found in a dump near Sedalia, Colorado. This evidence led to the discovery of Coors' remains nearby. A ransom letter was traced back to Joe Corbett's typewriter. He had also ordered handcuffs, leg irons, and a gun through the mail in the months preceding the kidnapping. The FBI distributed 1.5 million posters with Corbett's picture and then tracked him all the way across Canada, from Toronto to Vancouver, where he was finally apprehended.
Corbett never testified at his trial and never made any statement, but the evidence was enough to convince the jury who convicted him in 1961. He was eventually released in 1980.
Wow. Kill two people and still get out of jail within 30 years.
Hey, what's that Senator from Dakota gonna serve? 30 days?
supposed to be 100 but that was not intentional.
The victim is just as dead.
so you don't think the intent of the person matters? Laura Bush is just as bad as Ted Bundy?
40 yrs ago today.....the beatles where on ED Sullivan's show.....
And it was wonderful! Exciting!! Thrilling!!! Fab!!!
so you don't think the intent of the person matters? Laura Bush is just as bad as Ted Bundy?
Yes, intent matters. I'd still say there's something wrong when he only has to serve 30 days.
40 yrs ago today.....the beatles where on ED Sullivan's show.....
I wasn't born yet.
I wasn't born yet.
Too bad for you!
did you two know- you almost had this same conversation about a year ago???
THX 1138 "THX's Shed (The Pentagon) - Stay the hell out!" 3/19/02 2:49pm
Too funny!
We had our place broken into up north and almost all my music was taken, but I still have all my Beatles CDs.
did you two know- you almost had this same conversation about a year ago???
OMG, I don't even remember that.
I vaguely recall joking with Frosti about the kids being smart alecs, and telling everyone to get the hell out of my shed.
Did you notice they didn't listen?
see what backslogging does....i figure I got about another week of quality reading to do.....
THX - I always listen.
THX - I always listen.
Yeah right!
TerryV "THX's Shed (The Pentagon) - Stay the hell out!" 3/19/02 6:10pm
But I don't always obey.
But I don't always obey.
LOL
Which brings us back to the conversation I had with Frosti two years ago about my boys not listening.
THX 1138 "THX's Shed (The Pentagon) - Stay the hell out!" 3/20/02 11:25am
:-)
This is getting to be like nostaligia night around here!
I didn't even have my shed back when that thread was started.
I can't remember what it was orignally for. Other than a place no one was supposed to go into.
The shed just livened up the place a tad...made it dressier and more fun to drop in.
I used to move the shed around, so people would have to hunt for it.
I don't remember that.
You're own homemade conspiracy?
No conspiracy.
I was openly screwing with peoples heads.
I ain't touching that! Nope. Uh-uh. Forget it!
Come on Terry.
I just might surprise ya.